Description
A subscription online service with 153 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2001 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ebfd15a7738edbed9f40bd509c8366e0ce332c0e29c97022c8eba917a17d4042- Last verified
- Oct 29, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-FLASH-5 · lz-swf core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- None. Captured over the network.
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-FLASH-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Flash.
Cite as: Bluebell Online Services, BluebellNet (1999–2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15434.